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Re: New Version Notification for draft-petrescu-6man-ll-prefix-len-17.txt

sthaug@nethelp.no Mon, 13 May 2019 09:57 UTC

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> My thought on this this the following: OSPF should update to allow
> Router ID to be an IPv6 link-local address, not just an IPv4 address.

The OSPF router ID is a 32 bit number, *not* an IPv4 address. I see
no good reason to change this, we simply need to have people stop
*thinking* of it as an IPv4 address.

> MPLS and LDP should update to allow IPv6 addresses everywhere and not
> rely on any form of IPv4.

LDPv6 already exists:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7552

Supported in for instance JunOS:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/ldp-native-ipv6-support-overview.html

Steinar Haug, AS2116

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